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NASA and Russia’s space agency might leave the International Space Station temporarily without a crew starting in November, NASA said on Monday. The announcement was triggered by the failed launch of a cargo ship last week that has called into question the safety of Russian Soyuz rockets used to carry people to orbit.

On Wednesday, a Soyuz rocket failed to reach orbit, causing the Progress cargo ship it was carrying to crash in Russia’s Altai region. Fuel pressure in the rocket’s third-stage engine dropped suddenly for unknown reasons, causing the engine to shut down prematurely.

A slightly different version of the Soyuz rocket is used to carry Soyuz crew capsules to the space station. Neither Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, nor NASA is willing to launch another crew on a Soyuz rocket until the reason for Wednesday’s failure is understood and fixed.

“If we don’t have Soyuz by the middle of November … then we would have to de-man [the] ISS at that point,” NASA’s space station programme manager Mike Suffredini said in a news conference on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

KATHMANDU, August 30: Setting aside advice from security and his aides, newly elected Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai bucked the general trend of prime ministers and ministers going for expensive, luxurious vehicles and refused to ride any bullet-proof, foreign-made, luxurious vehicle available in the market, chosing instead a comparatively far cheaper, indigenously assembled four-wheeler.

According to Biswadeep Pandey, security had suggested to Dr Bhattarai not to ride the Nepal-assembled Hulas Mustang for security reasons. Even aides including Pandey had suggested he use the Scorpio that he has been riding if he did not want anything expensive or luxurious.

Dr Bhattarai had expressed a wish to ride the Mustang, a product of Biratnagar-based Hulas Motors Company, to officials of the Home Ministry that arranges vehicles for government ministers, when it became certain he was to be elected prime minister Sunday afternoon. The Home Ministry made arrangements accordingly.

“We brought the vehicle to Kathmandu overnight from Biratnagar,” said Diwakar Golchha, a Constituent Assembly member and managing director of Golchha Organization, which owns the company. Read the rest of this entry »

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It’s for certain: No one else’s election to the post of prime minister than Baburam Bhattarai’s on Sunday would have raised somuch of public anticipation. His life journey—a son of a peasant from an impoverished village in Gorkha; a student who did so well that he never came second in class throughout his academic career; a man who gave up a high-flying engineering profession to join politics; and a politician who renounced his private property and has so far strictly maintained his personal integrity—offers a compelling and captivating narrative.People joined the Maoist “People’s War” for different reasons—some did so to escape their wretchedly impoverished life, others joined to fight oppressive local elites and yet others came in because it offered a lucrative opportunity for extortion and intimidation. And then there is another group of people—both in the hinterlands and in urban areas—who joined the insurgency simply because Baburam Bhattarai had joined and was leading it. For this group and many others who sympathized with the insurgency, the “People’s War” led by one of their “noblest and most intelligent” lads (the “Board First” guy, the person who tops the School Leaving Certificate exam, always holds a special place in Nepali society and psyche) could not have been a false path.

Bhattarai quickly became an icon of the Maoist insurgency for the public if not for party cadres partly because they knew nothing more about the ‘commander-in-chief’ of the “People’s War” than his nom de guerre —Prachanda. If people didn’t know what Prachanda’s real name was until the end of the insurgency they also had no idea if Baburam had a pseudonym. This gave Baburam a monopoly in public recognition as the leader of the “People’s War”.

It was only after the Maoist party came out into open politics following Janaandolan II that Pushpa Kamal Dahal started replacing Bhattarai in public view as the main leader behind the Maoist insurgency. But Dahal quickly wasted his political capital and his credibility continued to slip—thanks to his lack of consistency, excessive manipulation and impulsive decisions and actions. As Dahal’s credibility plummeted, people turned to Bhattarai once again as their last bet and hope. This was amply reflected in various SMS votings and other surveys, however unscientific these were.

How Bhattarai performs as prime minister remains to be seen. Premiership, as challenging as it is, will test Bhattarai’s strengths and weaknesses: Does academic excellence automatically translate into good political, social judgment? Does his moderate credentials in the party also mean he is well-equipped to reach out to political parties on the other side of the spectrum? Will he use his moral strength to stop any friends, family and party cadres profiteering from the state and intimidating and extorting from others? Does he have the imagination, wisdom and courage for progressive, pragmatic initiatives or will he waste his energies in cheap populism? Will he just remain an ideologue or turn himself into a transformative leader? Read the rest of this entry »